Mustafa Maluka

NEWS: Mustafa Maluka has a solo exhibition titled Discourse in Translation: A pragmadialectical analysis at Galerie Mikael Andersen in Copenhagen from 5 March to 10 April.

EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

No more keeping my feet on the ground on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
The Interview (a transcript) (15 February - 16 March 2007)
New paintings on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
New paintings at the Armory Show (2007)
New paintings at the São Paulo Bienal (2006)
Paintings from What Lies Beneath (Galerie Mikael Andersen) (2006)
The great quiet (2005) on South African art 1848 - now
Passageways into worlds beyond my grasp (2005) on South African art 1848 - now
Accented Living (a rough guide) (8 June - 9 July 2005)
Seen it all (2002)
The realness (2002)
Soul on ice (2002)
Cats drink champagne and toast death and pain ... (2001)

PUBLICATIONS

The Interview (a transcript) (2007)
Accented Living (a rough guide) (2005)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1976, Mustafa Maluka studied graphic design at the Peninsula Technikon. He held two solo exhibitions and was included on numerous group shows in the late 1990s in Cape Town. He subsequently moved to Amsterdam in late 1998 where he studied at De Ateliers, and was enrolled as a PhD candidate at ASCA (the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam). He returned to South Africa in 2004 and was the winner of the 2004 Tollman Award for a young artist. He currently lives and works between Helsinki and New York. Recent solo shows have taken place at Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva (September 2009), and Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (November 2009). Group exhibitions include Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2008); World Histories at Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa (2008); Common Affairs as part of the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz, Austria (2008); and the 7th São Paulo Bienal (2006). Full CV

Also see www.mustafamaluka.com.